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The New & Improved NCSS Challenge

We are always striving to have the NCSS Challenge provide the best…

A student perspective on the NCSS Challenge

Thinking of joining the NCSS challenge this July? Hear…

More free Professional Development hours with Grok Learning

In June 2018 we announced that Grok…

Running Python on your Brain Computer

In August I gave a talk at PyCon AU in their Education track about students’ mental models of…

My first program — how I got into coding

Great things start from the smallest of beginnings. We went around the office and asked…

5 tips for getting the most out of the NCSS Challenge

Making games is not the only way to learn code

Video games are great, making them is extraordinarily creative and fulfilling, but they’re not the only way to learn to code. There are so many different projects we can make, so many different fields to explore, yet it seems like learning to make…

So you are teaching coding… how and what next?

Jon Roberts is a Digital Technology and Innovation teacher at Helena College, Glen Forrest Campus in Western Australia. He is interested in teaching students (and teachers) to code, and develop a passion for life long learning.

Syntax Error! How to avoid the most common trap for new programmers.

The most common and frustrating types of error students make when learning to code are syntax (and related) errors. In fact, they account for a vast majority of the incorrect code students run as they attempt to…